QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) -- A Georgia man is accused of raping five women, including two at the same time, during a string of violent home-invasion attacks in Queens during the 1990s, according to authorities.
Michael Benjamin, 57, was arrested on Thursday and charged with rape after fingerprint and DNA evidence linked him to incidents spanning from 1995 to 1997, according to the NYPD.
"These were heinous, heinous, heinous rapes that occurred," a police source said.
On July 24, 1995, at around 5 a.m., Benjamin allegedly broke into a 24-year-old woman's home near 113th Road and 194th Street, pulled a sheet over her head, and tied her up, prosecutors and police said. The suspect was accused of raping her and stealing her cash and jewelry before fleeing the scene.
About a year later, the susp